Most Read This Week In Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarch ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Suspense"

The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
Dear Debbie
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Woman Down
It's Not Her
Ward D
Anatomy of an Alibi
The First Time I Saw Him (Hannah Hall, #2)
Rock Paper Scissors
Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)
Not Quite Dead Yet
Death to Valentine's Day
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
The Mad Wife
Love, Mom
She Didn't See It Coming
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Do You Remember?
Dead in the Water
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0)
Strange Pictures
I Came Back for You
Heartwood
The Missing Half
Want to Know a Secret?
The Storm
Remain
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
Mad Mabel
A Killing Cold
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
On a Quiet Street
The Friend of the Family
Kill for Me, Kill for You
His Temporary Fiancée (The Huxleys #3)
It Should Have Been You
The Polymorph
You Killed Me First
When I Kill You
What Kind of Paradise
Guess Again
The Business Trip
The Maidens
Tell Me What You Did
The Woman in Suite 11  (Lo Blacklock, #2)
In His Wake
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
Forget Me Not
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
What She Saw
Her Last Breath
The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #20)
You'll Never Know
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
Nightshade (Catalina, #1)
The Arrangement (The Arrangement, #1)
In Her Defense
Too Old for This
All Her Fault
All the Sinners Bleed
Everyone Is Lying to You
Antihero (Orphan X, #11)
Family of Liars
The Invisible Woman
Read Between the Lies
His Other Woman
The Fix
Julie Chan Is Dead
Land of Dreams
Next of Kin
A Box Full of Darkness
On the Brink of Bliss
Pendergast: The Beginning (Agent Pendergast #0.5)
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
The Drowning Woman
Cold Zero
Tilt
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
The Hunting Wives
Those Empty Eyes
Happy Wife
With a Vengeance
All the Little Houses
My Husband Next Door
The Last Party
Blade
La muy catastrófica visita al zoo
Notes on an Execution
Inheritance (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #1)
The Water Lies
Horrible Husbands
Beth Is Dead
Delicate Escape (Sparrow Falls, #2)
We Fell Apart
The Same Backward as Forward (The Inheritance Games, #0)
The New Neighbours

Max Nowaz
He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession.  
Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

Susan  Rowland
George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.
Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds

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